Artwork Description:

Title: Golden

I completed my first ever painting on canvas during the height of last summer’s heatwave, and called it “Menopause in July.” Painted in highly saturated colours, bright pinks, oranges & yellows, in blinding south-facing natural light, it captured all of my frustrations with the materials, the process, the affects and effects of the heat and my wild, wild mood swings.

This version is cooler days, rainfall, longer shadows, desaturated colours and a less frenzied state of mind.
I’ve worked this painting in layers, to capture the foreground, the background and the jumble of foliage in between.
To push this work even further,  I’ve harnessed my tendency for self-sabotage, by printing over portions of the painting, obscuring some of the obsessive fiddly bits, and then utilised my love of embroidery by stitching back into it to “mend” it.

Acrylics, oil pastel, embroidery.

Artist Bio:

this work is a natural progression from textile design back into drawing & painting.

within the beautiful location of amber valley, i'm enjoying working on a new garden that i'm gradually filling with floral inspiration; novice gardener with firm plant favourites in terms of structure, texture & colour combination.

exploring & experimenting with fresh creative processes, as well as the familiar layering and tactile qualities of embroidered work, have led to these colourful, expressive, textural pieces based in nature.